Friday Finds in Newspapers: 4 September 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• Ancestry Collaborates with Gannett to Digitally Archive More Than 80 U.S. Newspapers by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter  - includes The Cincinnati Enquirer, Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis Star, The Tennessean and many others
• 2015 NDNP Awards Announced - Wisconsin and Delaware Join the Program! from the Chronicling America blog
• Google Custom Search for English Newspapers by Dick Eastman of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - a customized Google search engine that will search the major newspapers in England
• Taking Clues From Your Ancestor’s Ethnicity by Amy Johnson Crow at the Ancestry blog - an article from a year ago, but very pertinent and useful
• More than century of Centenary online from the Shreveport Times - college student newspapers from Centenary College
• The Dublin Gazette from 1750-1800 online by John D. Reid at Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections
• Connecticut State Library Receives New Grant for Newspaper Digitization from the Connecticut State Library
• Genealogy With Janice: Small town newspapers are a boon for family historian by Janice Nickerson at Inside Toronto
• Digital database breathes new life into newspaper archives by Venesa Brashier at Your Houston News
• How to Research Legal Notices in Newspapers for Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega at the GenealogyBank blog
• Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers by Nicola Davis at The Guardian

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 86 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and West Australia.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America (which is back online after a weekend of maintenance) has updated 15 of its titles with more content from the District of Columbia and Oregon.
• In August, Findmypast added eight new titles to its Irish Newspaper Collection and 22 new titles to its British Newspaper Collection. They also updated many titles with more content in both collections.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 21 August 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• Tuesday's Tip: Use AmericanAncestors.org to Access Two Early Newspaper Collections by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings - this is an older, but helpful, article that I meant to include in Friday Finds a while ago
• Great news for Washington Digital Newspapers! by Nono Burling at the Washington State Library blog - "The Washington State Library has been awarded a Veridian Newspaper Conversion Grant to process and present up to 10,000 newspaper images from our Historic Newspapers Collection."
• Kalkaska County (Michigan) Library’s Digital Newspaper Archive by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - featuring issues of The Leader and Kalkaskian and predecessor newspapers, from 1879 to 2012
• 90 years of McGill student newspapers being uploaded to Internet Archive by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte - student newspapers of McGill University in Montreal from 1911 to 2011
• Free Online Search: Digitized Welsh Newspapers by Diane Haddad at Genealogy Insider - "The National Library of Wales has updated its free Welsh Newspapers Online website with a new look and 400,000 pages from newspapers published between 1804 and 1919."
• The very best newspaper website for my genealogy is... by Paula Stuart-Warren at Genealogy by Paula - excellent advice, the same which I tell my students in my class, Finding Your Ancestors in Historical Newspapers
• Newspaper Searches Days Before the Death by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day - great tip, and I highly recommend subscribing to this free blog!

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 227 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and West Australia.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 45 of its titles with more content from Idaho, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added 24 titles to its collection from the following cities: Albany, Astoria, Corvallis, Heppner, Hood River, Monmouth, Pendleton, Prineville, Roseburg, Salem, and St. Helens.
• Findmypast has added two new titles to and updated several others from its historic Irish Newspapers collection. These include the Missionary Herald of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Tyrone Constitution, and the Dublin Evening Mail. They have also added 11 new titles to their British Newspapers collection, including the Glasgow Sentinel, Lincolnshire Advertiser, Kentish Advertiser, Sheffield Iris, and the Yorkshire Early Bird. In addition, they have updated the Newcastle Journal and the Birmingham Daily Gazette.
• The Digital Library of Georgia has added the Southern Voice, the newspaper of Kennesaw State University, to its collections. The issues range from 1988 to 2010,
• The Chicago Tribune is providing a text-searchable archive of past issues from 1849 through 1991. These may eventually go being a subscription wall, so search them now!

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 17 July 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• How To Save Articles, And Things From Google News Archive, a handy video at YouTube - I get emails all the time asking how to do this!
• Preserving and Digitizing Newspapers by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Savannah Historic Newspapers Expansion by Donnie Summerlin at The DLG (Digital Library of Georgia) Blog
• Battle Creek Enquirer Digitized Images Strikes Again! by Brenda Leyndyke at Journey to the Past
• List of links to online BC and New Brunswick newspapers updated by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• Historic Oregon Newspapers Online: Available and Forthcoming Titles at the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program blog

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated several hundred of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from all six states, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 56 of its titles with more content from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added 11 titles to its collection from the cities of Albany, Astoria, Heppner, Hood River, Monmouth, Pendleton, Salem, and Spray.
• Since March, GenealogyBank has added 444 new historical digitized titles and updated 46 historical digital titles with more content. They have also added transcribed obituaries from 78 new non-digitized, current newspapers. These include newspapers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• In February, the Fulton (New York) Postcard Old Newspaper site updated its digitized collection with 105 titles. These include 62 titles from New York, as well as titles from Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and the country of Sierra Leone.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 20 March 2015 (A Day Late)

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Extra, Extra, Read All About It --- The Detroit News SUBJECT Index Cards are Now Online at SeekingMichigan.org by LE at MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy
• New additions to BAnQ’s online newspapers collection by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• The focus for The Genealogy Guys Podcast #285 was Newspaper Research. This podcast is hosted by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith. Go here for more information on how to listen to a podcast.
• Now Online: Death Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh, New York, Newspapers 1787 – 1895 by Dick Eastman of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Ancestry.com Launches Genealogy Website for Searching Irish Newspapers by Tyler at GenealogyInsider
• But WE know… by Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist
• In search of the Eatonville Dispatch by Shawn Schollmeyer at Between the Lines (Washington State Library Blog)
• Milford (Michigan) Times Obituary Index 1929-1949 is now Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 17 of its titles with more content from Mississippi.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 35 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria.
• GenealogyBank added 31 new titles and updated 11 titles with more content. These include newspapers from Alabama, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington
• March 16 was the 188th anniversary of the founding of the first black newspaper in the United States, Freedom's Journal, which was published in New York City.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 28 November 2014

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• The Oregonian's historic archives: Treasures we found when we moved by David Stabler at OregonLive
• Sacred Heart Review by David Richtmyer at John J. Burns Library's Blog - this Catholic newspaper published in Cambridge and Boston from 1888 to 1918 has been digitized and is now online
• South Dakota Digitizes Historic Newspapers at CBS Minnesota
• Newspaper archive added to University of Montevallo [Alabama] library at The Clanton Advertiser

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 16 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from California, Louisiana, and Michigan. 

Additions, Updates, and Corrections of U.S. Newspaper Pages

Over the past 10 months, I have slowly made many updates, corrections, and additions to the pages of the Online Historical Newspaper site, specifically the U.S. pages. For some time, I was unable to do any work on the site, as I had shoulder surgery shortly before Christmas 2013, and was in physical therapy until the spring.

This summer, I made the most changes on the site, but realized I have never posted an update. So here goes! You'll see many new and updated titles from the Library of Congress' Chronicling America site. I have everything updated for the states Alabama through Michigan from the Library of Congress, as of today.

Additions, Updates, and Corrections

Alabama - one new title from Library of Congress, and one from Google News Archive; corrected one link from Jackson State University

Arizona - 34 new and nine updated titles from Library of Congress

California - three new and four updated titles from Library of Congress

Colorado - corrected two titles from GenealogyBank; two new and seven updated titles to Library of Congress

District of Columbia - updated title from Georgia State University Library; two new and seven updated titles from Library of Congress

Georgia - one new title from Library of Congress

Hawai'i - one updated title from Library of Congress

Illinois - two new and seven updated titles from Library of Congress; one updated title and two corrected links to UIUC

Indiana - 21 new and four updated titles from Library of Congress

Iowa - 13 new titles from Library of Congress and one new title from GenealogyBank

Kansas - 25 new and two updated titles from Library of Congress

Kentucky - 30 new and 16 updated titles from Library of Congress

Louisiana - 73 new and one updated titles from Library of Congress

Maryland - two new titles from Library of Congress, one corrected link to Georgia State University Library

Michigan - 10 new and one updated titles from Library of Congress; corrected one link to Making of Modern Michigan and two links to Orion Township Public Library

New Jersey - 10 new titles from Atlantic County Library System

New York - corrected link to Rockland County Messenger; updated dates on Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Ohio - four new titles from Minster Historical Society & Museum

Tennessee - two new and one updated titles from Library of Congress

Utah - one new title from Library of Congress

Vermont - one new title from Library of Congress

Alberta, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia New Pages and Updates

While I have not posted updates to this blog since April, it does NOT mean I have not updated the site. On the contrary, I was very busy this summer posting new titles to the site. However, this fall, I started to have some familiar shoulder pain, and sure enough, I became a candidate once again, for rotator cuff surgery, this time on my right shoulder. I had the surgery on December 19th, and am still very much in the early stages of recovery. However, I can type one-handed, slowly, and so I decided that now was as good a time as any to inform you of the new titles and updates that were posted this past year.


New Pages

Alberta - with one title from NewspaperArchive


Updates

California - one new title from NewspaperArchive, and two from Google News Archive; corrected info on one title from Google News Archive

Hawaii - nine new titles from Library of Congress; expanded dates on three titles from Library of Congress

Iowa - two new titles from Library of Congress

Illinois - one new title from Library of Congress

Michigan - seven new titles from Library of Congress

Minnesota - two new titles from City of Brainerd

Montana - three new titles from GenealogyBank, 17 from Google News Archives, 21 from Library of Congress, 13 from Montana Memory Project, and 24 from NewspaperArchive

New Jersey - three from Cranford Public Library, two from Joint Digital Archives of Fanwood and Scotch Plains, two from New Brunswick Public Libray, ten from Rahway Public Library, two from Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library, three from South Plainfield Public Library, and nine from Woodbridge Public Library

Oregon - four new titles from Ancestry, one from the City of Rainier, six from Gale's 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Collection, nine from GenealogyBank, 23 from Google News Archive, 65 from Historic Oregon Newspapers, 23 from Library of Congress, four from NewspaperArchive, 14 from SmallTownPapers, and one from the University of Oregon Libraries; expanded dates for one title from Library of Congress. At this point, Oregon's page is as complete as I am aware it can be!

Pennsylvania - seven new titles from LancasterHistory and one from Internet Archive (via LancasterHistory)

Texas - 29 new titles from Library of Congress, and two from University of North Texas Libraries; expanded dates for one title from Library of Congress

Washington - removed link to Tri-City Herald after determining it is no longer offered through Google News Archive

West Virginia - two new titles from Library of Congress

Manitoba - for some reason, this page was not linked to the Canada page, so the public didn't have access to it, unless they knew the direct link. Fixed. Added one title from University of Manitoba.

Alaska, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Washington Updates

Petersburg, Alaska

Alaska - four new titles from the Petersburg Public Library

Indiana - seven new titles from the Library of Congress

Michigan - two new titles from Google News Archive

New Mexico - 27 new and two updated titles from the Library of Congress

Washington - ten titles from the Library of Congress

British Columbia, Kansas, Manitoba, Maryland, and Michigan New Pages and Updates

New Pages

Manitoba - with seven titles from the Manitobia Project

Updates

British Columbia - one new title from the University of Victoria

Kansas - 19 new titles from Belleville Public Library

Maryland - two new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan - two new titles each from the Kalamazoo Public Library and the Northville District Library

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Quebec and West Virginia New Pages and Updates

It's hard to believe it's been over six months since I have posted the new pages and updates! I have added a lot of new links and updates over the past two months. There are now pages for all 50 states of the Union, plus Washington, D.C.! Here's the latest:

New Pages

Massachusetts - with one title each from the Sturgis Library and the Barnstable Patriot, three titles from the University of Massachusetts at Boston via NewspaperARCHIVES, and four titles from the Provincetown Public Library

Mississippi - with 17 titles from GenealogyBank

Nevada - with one title from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, two titles from the Henderson District Public Libraries, seven titles from GenealogyBank, and 10 titles from the Cooperative Libraries Automated Network

West Virginia - with four titles from GenealogyBank



Updates

Alabama - one new title from GenealogyBank

Arizona - seven new titles from GenealogyBank and one from ProQuest

Arkansas - one new title from GenealogyBank

Georgia - two new titles from ProQuest

Maryland - two new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan - two new titles from the Kalamazoo Public Library

New York - changed three Erie County links from the Western New York Legacy site to the New York Heritage Digital Collection. Links to more titles at this new site will be added soon to this page.

Québec - one new title from Google News Archive

Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington New Pages and Updates

I have been adding quite a bit of links to the website the past four months, but have not taken the time to list the new pages and updates. It really is amazing how many digitized newspapers are out there, and how quickly various institutions, organizations, and businesses are adding more and more to the Internet each week!

New Pages

Idaho - with three titles from Google News Archive

Indiana - with two titles from Google News Archive

Iowa - with six titles from Google News Archive

Rhode Island - with one new title from Google News Archive


Updates

Alabama - one new title from Google News Archive

Arizona - updated three titles from the Library of Congress with more years of coverage; added two new titles from the Library of Congress, and one new title from Google News Archive

Florida - one new title from the University of Florida and three new titles from Google News Archive

Georgia - one new title from Google News Archive

Illinois -  one new title from Google News Archive

Kansas - 13 new titles from the Library of Congress and 39 new titles from GenealogyBank

Louisiana - five new titles from Google News Archive

Maryland - six new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan -28 new titles: one from the Commerical Record, seven from Google News Archive, 13 from GenealogyBank, two from Footnote, one from the Salem-South Lyon Digital Archives, two from the Rawson Memorial Library, one from the Making of Modern Michigan, and one from the Ann Arbor District Library

Montana -  two new titles from Google News Archive

North Carolina - three new titles from Google News Archive

Ohio - one new title from Google News Archive

Oklahoma - three new titles from Google News Archive

Pennsylvania - three new titles from Google News Archive

Texas - one new title from Google News Archive

Washington - one new title from Google News Archive

Alaska, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio New Pages and Updates

New Pages:

Alaska - my newest state page is Alaska, with eight titles from GenealogyBank, 24 titles from NewspaperArchive, and one title from Tundra Times. This makes 26 states plus the District of Columbia that are now available for US papers.

Updates:

United States - now with 26 states plus the District of Columbia linked

Michigan - one new title from the Farmington Community Library

North Carolina - one new title from the Washington County, NCGenWeb site

Ohio - one new title from the Cleveland Jewish News

Michigan New Page and New York Updates

I've added a new page for the state of Michigan. I've also added quite a few New York links for the following counties: Deleware, Erie, Suffolk, and Ulster. I'll be adding even more soon!